Abstract
We apply the specialization technique based on the decomposition of the diagonal to the intersection of a quadric and cubic hypersurface in mathbb {P}^6. We find an explicit example defined over mathbb {Q} that is smooth, and does not admit a decomposition of the diagonal, and is therefore not retract rational. The proof uses the specialization of Nicaise and Ottem (Tropical degenerations and stable rationality, 2020), who proved that the very general complete intersection of this type is stably irrational using the motivic volume.
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